If you are a current college student on any American campus, you can help fight political indoctrination in the classroom while getting a chance to be in a groundbreaking documentary.
Do you have a professor who routinely takes class time to preach politics in a course that has absolutely nothing to do with politics? If so, then you may be paying to listen to political advertising. Would you like your money back?
Many of you have probably seen those local news segments where reporters go after businessmen who rip off their customers. Someone pays to have their entire house painted, but the job is left half-done. The noble reporter comes to the defense of the victimized consumer and helps secure a refund. Everybody's happy, with the obvious exception of the people perpetrating the fraud.
It's no different when it comes to education. If you're paying for three hour-long math classes every week, but your professor insists on spending 15 minutes of each class telling you about his political opinions, then you are being ripped off and you could be entitled to a partial refund of your tuition. We may be able to help.
For more information, please read the "Stop Classroom Politicking" article.
Please note that we believe strongly in academic freedom, and we will take precautions to ensure that the academic freedom of professors is not trampled upon. But as Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "With freedom comes responsibility." To talk of academic freedom without recognizing the academic responsibility of professors is to focus on only half the equation. Professors have tremendous power within the classroom, and responsible professors exercise that power without injecting their political views in ways that are not germane to the course material. If political science professors dispassionately discuss their political views in class, we don't have a problem with that. Unfortunately, there are many cases where professors abuse their freedom to the detriment of their students, and that's what we'd like to address.
12 Jan 2005 @ 10:32pm